Quote Originally Posted by Barbarossa82
An EB-style government system would have also been a good way to represent it.
The only proble with the culture penalty is that it is pretty easy to deal with for a rich faction unless you are capturing huge cities...

I guess this is conceptual, I mean I have have no problem with the concept that a huge city that is a large distance from the center of you empire, and was at one point taken by force, is going to be at best a simmering hotbed of separatisim...